It has become commonplace for Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) to be analyzed according to Intention-to-Treat (ITT) principles in which data from all subjects are used regardless of the subjects' adherence to protocol. While ITT analyses can provide useful information in some cases, they do not answer the question that motivates many RCTs, namely, whether the treatments differ in efficacy. I...

1. The voluntary ethanol consumption, ethanol elimination rate and blood acetaldehyde level after intraperiotoneal injection of ethanol were studied in rats receiving diets with highly imbalanced proportions of dietary protein, carbohydrate and fat. 2. The rats, which received the low-protein diet containing 0.05 of the total energy as protein, 0.80 as carbohydrate and o.15 as fat, drank only a...

BACKGROUND Obesity and diabetes are frequently associated with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), but studies have been hampered by the absence of a suitable experimental model. OBJECTIVE Our objective was to create a rat model of NASH. DESIGN Sprague-Dawley rats were fed a high-fat, liquid diet (71% of energy from fat, 11% from carbohydrates, 18% from protein) or the standard Lieber-DeCa...

OBJECTIVE To compare and evaluate the reliability of several indexes of adherence to the Mediterranean diet. DESIGN The ten indexes included in the analysis were: Mediterranean Diet Score (MDS), Mediterranean Score (MS), Dietary Score (DS), Mediterranean-Dietary Quality Index (Med-DQI), Mediterranean Dietary Pattern adherence index (MDP), Mediterranean Adequacy Index (MAI), Mediterranean Styl...

objective: dietary changes playmajor risk roles in oxidative stress andcardiovascular disease and modulate normal metabolic function. the present study was designed to investigate the ameliorative potential of different extracts of hemidesmus indicus to experimental high-fat diet in wistar rats, and their possible mechanism of action.  materials and methods: male wistar rats were divided into 6...

Time-restricted feeding (TRF) can reduce adiposity and lessen the co-morbidities of obesity. Mice consuming obesogenic high-fat (HF) diets develop insulin resistance hepatic steatosis, but have elevated indices long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LCPUFA) that may be beneficial. While TRF impacts lipid metabolism, scant data exist regarding impact upon lipidomic composition tissues. We (1) t...

An enhancement of pancreatic cancer induced by N-nitrosobis-(2-oxopropyl)amine (BOP) was reported previously in Syrian hamsters fed high-fat diet following carcinogen treatment. The purpose of our research was to determine if this enhancement was due to the consumption of more calories by the hamsters fed the high-fat diet. Male hamsters were treated with a single injection of BOP (20 mg/kg bod...